1994 Projects
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Scope: To produce an English/Spanish video entitled, "Your Safe School" which will be scripted to serve as a foundation for a re-introduction of the district's IIPP. It will encourage the district's 1124 sites to set up their own programs, with an emphasis on theory and long-term planning rather than specific training. The program will ask schools to fill out and send in their IIPP certification statements certifying that the school facility has watched and understood the program and that the site administrator is aware of his/her responsibilities. The site administrator will be asked to reference the IIPP handbook that has already been given to the sites. Certification statements for the sites will be checked by Safety Officers responsible for those sites. Sites not turning in certification statements will be given individual attention.
Product: Training video entitled "Safety Matters".
HOPE REHABILITATION SERVICES/SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 535
Scope: To develop a formal, comprehensive IIPP for the developmentally disabled and to prepare 150 staff members to train 850 employees with developmental disabilities. Training topics would include: ergonomics, personal protective equipment and MSDSs, earthquake safety and disaster preparedness; community safety, proper lifting, safe attitudes and behaviors, seizure activity, personal hygiene, CPR and First Aid, fire safety, illness prevention and bloodborne pathogens.
Status: Set of training manuals entitled "Life Facts: Managing Illness and Injury", Life Facts: Smart Trust", Warehousing & Storage Safety", "Chemsafe 2000", "Safety & Health", and "Life Facts: Managing Emotions". Set of booklets entitled "2 Earthquakes: A Survival Guide for Seniors", "Ergonomics: Preventing Cumulative Trauma Injuries" and "Personal & Family Safety". Set of training videos entitled "Kitchen Safety", "Back Care for Safety", "Fire Prevention Responsibility", "Office Safety", "Fire in the Workplace", "Material Handling Safety", "Eye Care & Safety", "Safe Handling/Wood Pallets", "Bloodborne Pathogens Retraining", "Hand, Finger & Wrist Safety", "Slips, Trips & Falls", "Office Safety - The Beginning", "Safe & Awake", "Housekeeping & Accident Prevention", "Accident Causes & Prevention", "Personal Protective Equipment", "Employee Education Safety in the Office", "Homestart Safety", "People vs. Noise", "Earthquake Preparedness - 1996", "Stash the Trash", "Box Cutter Safety", "Never Forget - Safety First", "Back Care", "Fire Prevention & Safety", "CPR - The Way to Save Lives", and "Building a Safer Workplace".
SOUTH BAY AFL-CIO LABOR COUNCIL (IN CONJUNCTION WITH 7 LOCAL UNIONS)
Scope: To continue and expand the bilingual training classes (started with a previous grant) and to broaden the scope to include the development of an English as a second language (ESL) module which uses health and safety (through the Auto Mechanics Local 1101 affiliate) h been added which will receive the general bilingual health and safety training and job-site peer-trainer series of classes. The Health and Safety Education Project will continue support other peer trainers and health and safety committees as well as expanding the outreach into the apprenticeship programs with the Pipe Trades, Retail Clerks and Machinists. The health and safety training will be directed towards workers in the following risk areas: machinists, pipe trades, janitorial service, health care, laborers/construction, transportation, retail clerks, butchers, clerical and hotel maintenance, janitorial and housekeeping. A survey may also be conducted of grocery clerks in order to ascertain if individual case reports of scanning lasers causing unusual vision deterioration are pointing to a broader scale vision impairment problem linked to the laser scanners commonly used in the industry.
Product: English for Building service Workers - Forepersons Course - Health and Safety Focus.
OIL, CHEMICAL AND ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION, WESTERN REGION
Scope: To develop, pilot test and evaluate the key elements of an effective ergonomics control program, focusing on job task analysis, hazard identification and control, employee participation/use of worksite teams, and providing training that is relevant and specific to the concerns of the exposed population. Three case studies would be developed which would illustrate to employees and employers how the complex field of ergonomics can successfully be applied to solve real workplace problems, using the oil industry as an example.
Product: Training manual entitled "Ergonomics Awareness Workbook".
DAVIS WIRE COMPANY/TEAMSTERS LOCAL 986
Scope: To create Action Teams who act as the core group of internal safety experts and trainers to address primary causes of recurring and high risk injuries and illness issues. These safety experts will be trained by external consultants, but will develop the custom curriculum, create or purchase safety materials and recruit the support needed to solve the company's targeted safety issues. An English/Spanish video will be made which documents the steps required to identify, improve and maintain target areas for improving the IIPP for replication at other California plants.
Product: Training video in both English and Spanish.
CALIFORNIA LABOR FEDERATION, AFL-CIO (IN COOPERATION WITH 30 LABOR ORGANIZATIONS)
Scope: To expand the ongoing establishment of a consortium or worker training programs taught in English and Spanish (from a previous grant) to a program that has the capacity to teach workers in Asian languages. A team of ten health and safety trainers based in county Central Labor Councils and Building Trades Councils and four bilingual trainers will offer courses to at least 1560 workers with an emphasis in the state's 100 high risk industries. Training will focus on the development of capacity and skills to meet the needs of worker participation in IIPPs. Efforts will target threshold topics essential to informed participation and leadership in IIPPs. Topics include: effective IIPPs; hazard identification, recording and reporting; toxic substances; ergonomics and construction hazards.
Status: In progress. No product yet available.
BAY COUNTIES DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS/THE 46 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTIES CARPENTERS JOINT APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
Scope: To implement training for cumulative trauma disorders injury prevention among working carpenters (journeymen and apprentices) in Northern California. All first year apprentice carpenters that will be attending the related and supplemental instruction classes and journey level members of the affiliate locals of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters will participate in the project. The project will involve (1) implementation of a train-the-train for existing Apprenticeship and Training instructional staff on ergonomics for carpenters (2) training in a four-hour course for apprentices and journey level using the manual Ergonomics for Carpenters.
Product: Catalog of health and safety training courses available for carpenters.
SAN MATEO COUNTY RISK MANAGEMENT DIVISION/AFSCME DISTRICT COUNCIL 57/ORGANIZATION OF DEPUTY SHERIFFS/SEIU LOCAL 715 PROBATION AND DETENTION ASSOCIATION/CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION
Scope: To reduce, control and contain the exposure to tuberculosis among 1200 identified "at risk" employees. The goal of the program is to identify those "at risk" employees who may come in contact with TB on the job, to test those employees to get a "baseline" on them, to provide training and education and to effect the necessary control and containment procedures. Activities include: devising control and containment measures; revising all appropriate IIPP manuals maintained by the County; preparing and distributing information pamphlets to the 1200 "at risk" employees; conducting training sessions for all affected management and supervisory personnel; conducting awareness and education seminars for the "at risk" employees; inaugurating a regular tuberculin skin testing program for the "at risk" employees with follow-up chest x-ray for positive skin tests or for those allergic employees; developing documentation forms and establishing recordkeeping procedures; developing and establishing procedures to provide counseling, treatment and rehabilitation services for "positive" County personnel and purchasing, as necessary, protective equipment.
Product: Manual entitled "Preventing TB in the Workplace" and a video entitled "Tuberculosis - Return of an Ancient Killer".
CAMBRIA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE DISTRICT
Scope: To produce videotapes showing a typical ambulance "call" emphasizing the detailed procedures which must be followed to assure safety and illness prevention while handling various calls.
Product: Set of 15 "Print to Practice" video, brochures and booklets on the following topics: Station Operations, Violence, Rope Rescue, Hazardous Materials, Helicopters, Safe Practices, Guidelines, Confined Space, Scene Control, Multi-Patient and MCI Incidents, Extrication, Animals, Water Related Incidents, and Infection Control Lifting.